Kiltedfrog

Not Quite Star Trek A Man rides an experimental space ship engine that pushes him close to the speed of light, knowing he'll miss out on two hundred years before he returns to normal time. Turns out they invented warp dr...

Check it out, It is WEIRD, it is short, and will leave you wondering if you weren't just inside a fever dream.

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1538...

The Royal Road Community Magazine Contest | Royal Road This was exciting, I loved reading these, and I am thrilled to present to you the winners of the January 2026 Community Magazine Contest. As a reminder, (...)

I won second place in a writing contest.

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Mortal Protection Services The Earth wakes up to find itself surrounded by completely different stars. An announcement rings out across the planet: "We at Mortal Protection Services have relocated you to a foster system tempora...

Psst, hey you, you wanna read some weird shit? It's free. Comedy sci Fi

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I literally had to bully my artist friend into taking my money and getting to work. I know she hates AI slop as much as I do, and I can't trust internet ppl. I was over here asking her for her days off work so I could hassle her when she was free to do the arting. Got me a couple covers out of her.

Beautiful product placement in a book? Oh... It's for another book. Well that's alright then.

Mortal Protection Services The Earth wakes up to find itself surrounded by completely different stars. An announcement rings out across the planet: "We at Mortal Protection Services have relocated you to a foster system tempora...

So I got some 'fan art' in the form of a killer new cover. Sure beats the hell of that jank I'd slapped together myself, and it was made by a real person, No AI. (We chatted before they just sent it to me, Thanks Pedro!)

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1355...

Actually, our freezer decided to shit the bed, so my art budget became new refrigerator budget over night.

I got no money for art now, but I still refuse to do the ai slop thing. Gogo gadget ms paint cover!

That's rad!

I find myself lacking both a space dragon, and a jellyfish space ship. I got the blue-eyed redhead though.

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1470...

I made some dude reading this cry with only the first five chapters. There's 6 chapters available now, and the 7th will be out this afternoon.

Fuck I hate AI. No wonder the last season felt soulless.

Yorna decides to just leave the planet she was born on because she doesn't want to get drawn into local politics. Ends up involved in galactic politics instead. Shit like that happens when it turns out you're the Space Dragon Scion.

I will use some shit I made in paint before I use an AI cover. As evidenced here. www.royalroad.com/fiction/1470... In my community magazine contest entry on Royal Road.

Sheena's pissed at Lucas for refusing to pay, and sneaking in. She's even more pissed at Rex for getting both of them caught. Bethany paid for their badges afterward, because she wouldn't wanna Con without her crew. The Nuphidri Keeps getting complements on her cosplay, but she's just an alien.

No commas... interesting choice.

I have found someone I am currently working with. Sorry. I'll have 2 more books later this year, so you might have another chance to snatch me up for a cover then.

The humans are using magitech, High-Sci-Fantasy. The 'hero ship' in the story looks like a Jellyfish. Imagine if the Millennium Falcon was a Jellyfish.

The dragons were created by ancient wizards in the golden age of magic. Flux, the HUGE red one on my paint version was made of martian stone.

Good rec, trustworthy source. I DMed you.

SPACE WIZARDS: The Return of Space Dragons For long, hard centuries has the galaxy endured an ebb in the flows of magic. The Great Ones, the makers of Dragons, the creators of faster than light travel, the sages of the ages past... All dead; l...

So There's a contest going on Royal Road to write a story about Space Dragons. So here's the start of mine.

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1470...

Anyone... know an affordable cover artist?

May all the nat 20's kill npcs and not pcs. May all the 1s be on the enemy dex saves.

Nice work! When I do that much in a day I usually feel pretty cooked at the end. I hope most of them didn't suck and survive the editing process. I wrote 7800 words in a day once, but everything after about 5k was just... trash. Straight in the bin.

So much more writing than reading... I still read a few books, more unfinished books than published ones. Working with other authors.
This last three months I have only read one, just been in a dead sprint to write this book. Not a lot of time for reading. But the book is done. It's out on RR. Free.

Mortal Protection Services The Earth wakes up to find itself surrounded by completely different stars. An announcement rings out across the planet: "We at Mortal Protection Services have relocated you to a foster system tempora...

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Put the last chapter out today. #freeBook

Enjoy. Paperback version next year. sometime. But... you'll have to pay for that. It'll be an actual physical good.

Noooo! How will you grow your magic powers if you keep removing your magical level ups!

(I get and do the same, but I shouldn't be trusted with powerful magic)

I was thinking about joining SFWA this coming year too. Now, no dues, and probably never gonna happen. I have recorded who is on the board and as long as one remains, I will not join. I suggest everyone else stop paying dues as well until the board has been fully replaced by humans for humans.

Narrator: They did not.

I've got a short story that's basically spraying fresh cut onions in people's eyes, and it was an absolute joy to write.

A single step back in the right direction, but you basically threw any trust I had in you guys off a cliff. Gonna be a few thousand steps to get it back. Tall cliff.

Still in camp, 'the whole board resigns, and we get a new one that wouldn't have shot itself in the foot because the LLMs said to.'

Mortal Protection Services The Earth wakes up to find itself surrounded by completely different stars. An announcement rings out across the planet: "We at Mortal Protection Services have relocated you to a foster system tempora...

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The latest chapter is called Dilt Biff City, and if you wanna know why, you'll just have to read this #freebook.

Free sci-fi for your xmas break. Read it!

Oh boy. fuck all the way off with this shit.

I hadn't even realized you could sell books on itch... and I kinda got the feeling that the people on itch are more my crowd.

Thanks!